Back in 1942, Ben Hecht -- the famous screen writer who wrote The Front Page, ScarFace, Notorious, Spellbound and countless other great Hollywood movies -- started a campaign that ran 90 different ads in 40 newspapers in 15 cities in a full-fledged publicity and fund-raising blitz to jump start the State of Israel. This included signatures of 133 endorsers (U.S. Senators and Congressmen, etc.) and enlisted celebrity advocates (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Lowell Thomas). It also called for, and got, all sorts of donations from well-known people. All this was designed to raise the consciousness of the world about what was happening in Europe (the start of the Holocaust) and support the fight to create Israel. I cite this to hopefully inspire, and maybe shame, the Democratic leadership into to doing something similar and as forceful.
Attention: Speaker Pelosi and Tom Perez and all you other Democratic Senators and House leaders, as well as businessmen and industry leaders and artists ... consider doing something as massive and persuasive as Ben Hecht’s campaign to begin to change the minds of the 40% (or so) of the electorate that supports Donald Trump!
Previous media campaigns have proven it can be done. The materials to do this are plentiful and easily accessible. And there are plenty of talented ad writers and media gurus who can devise ways by such a campaign can be constructed and launched. Even such groups as Indivisible and DailyKos would be glad to stand behind, contribute and support such an effort. If the objective is clear, you'll find plenty of people out there who would willingly contribute (it could even be a crowd-funding effort, by the way) small amounts that become large amounts when volume grows.
Such thinking begins outside the traditional box -- of running campaigns with ads and consultants, or investigating leads generated by such media as The NYTimes or WashingtonPost or BuzzFeed, or even passing good laws in the House that the Senate will never consider. It can produce positive results.
NOTE: The Republicans, for decades, have realized that thinking outside the box is their only salvation. They use massive dollars to change public opinion, often in shady or subversive ways -- e.g. by having their Think Tanks write "model legislation" and then lobbying political groups to propose it to legislators. They've gerrymandered, while Democrats have left it to private organizations or citizens like ACLU or Eric Holder to fight this in court for them. It is also a dirty little secret that the "Lock her up!" phrase could only be applied to Hillary after intensive campaigns ramped up propaganda to besmirch her.
So the call to action to the Democratic Establishment is this: Start a full-blown campaign to change the minds of the 40% ... and watch the Senate fall into line as the percentage drops!